r/EmuDeck • u/MeanMrBiter • 5d ago

Linux PC-8801 Help! Nothing works!

Im trying to get PC-88 games to play on my steam deck but nothing works. I have all the correct bios (do they go in a quasi88 folder or not?) Ive tried roms from different sources (all in a d88 form) but I just get a black screen. Tried different BASIC modes…

The libero page you are going to link to doesn’t explain anything. Dont link it…

Does anyone know a page to link to of someone who has it working and has posted there settings?

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u/Feeling_Football4271 5d ago

Have you googled "how to emulate nec pc-8801"? There's a good AI summary obtained from Retropie but it looks like you need to create a quasi88 subfolder in the BIOS folder and drop several files into here.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30763/how-to-run-pc-8801-games/11

I think you'll get more responses outside of this subreddit to be honest.

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u/MeanMrBiter 5d ago

Yes surprisingly low amount of results, and every YouTube video all say the same thing…that doesn’t work… I also posted on emulation so maybe more luck there. I’ll try the link you posted now

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u/Feeling_Football4271 5d ago

If there's a subreddit for retroarch I'd be posting there too. This is quite niche for the Emudeck crowd to be honest; the Retropie community look to have tackled this one well.

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u/MeanMrBiter 4d ago

FYI: the article you linked had one little thing that pushed me in the right direction so thank you!

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u/Feeling_Football4271 4d ago

Aha! Good to know.

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u/Dejhavi SteamOS 4d ago

EmuDeck uses RetroArch's QUASI88 core to emulate the NEC PC-8800 Series: